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NEWS IN MINNESOTA Le Roy will build a $12,000 school house. Beltrami county will build a new jail at Bemidji. Work has begun on the StillwaterSt. Paul electric line. Belgrade has voted bonds for water works and electric lights. The Great Northern will build a new freight depot at St. Cloud. St. Paul building contractors say they can't get enough laborers and carpenters. The national convention of Royal Neighbors is in session-at St. Paul this week. General Otis reports the death of Private Frank Smith of the Thirteenth regiment. A postoffice has been established at Rillo, Red Lake county, with Magnus Johnson as postmaster. Ex-Governor Ramsey has resigned from the St. Paul library board to make room for a younger man. The appointment of Archibald Stevens as government tea inspector at St. Paul has been announced. Peter Carroll, a North Dakota farmer, was drugged and robbed of $160 and valuable papers at St. Paul. The general offices of the Omaha road at St. Paul were burglarized Saturday night. About $12 were secured. The State bank of Campbell has been authorized to do business, capital $10,000. F. E. Kenasten of Minneapolis, chief stockholder. The Minneapolis school board has voted to erect a new high school building on the East Side and eight additions to present buildings. "Larry" Horrigan, alias "Slim" Wimble, was shot and killed while trying to escape arrest, being caught in the act of robbing a safe at Minneapolis. The Citizens' State bank Nicollet has gone into voluntary liquidation. Notices have been sent out to the depositors to call for their money, as they will be paid in full. The Commercial bank of Carlton was broken into by burglars, who took & small amount of money, two revolvers and several other things. A barber shop was also burglarized. In a decision by Justice Collins the Minnesota supreme court holds that where an agent was too busy to issue a permit a passenger was, justified in boarding a freight train without it. The Wright log and ore carrying road, the Duluth, Mississippi and Northern, has been absorbed by the Eastern Minnesota, This road runs from the Mississippi river to Hibbing and the Mahoming mine. Sixteen candidates for appointment to a cadetship at West Point took examinations at Winona Friday. One-half of the number are likely to be barred on account of defective teeth. Others had some other trouble and four dropped out, feeling they could not pass. The village council of Alexandria has appropriated $500, which, with a like amount to be appropriated by the county, will be expended on the roads leading into the village. The same thing was done last year, and $1,000 worth of work was done on the county roads near the town. The United States circuit court of appeals at St. Paul has decided that the suit of the United States against the Northern Pacific, an action involving the title to about 1,000,000 acres of land in Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, shall be heard at the present term of court. It is set for hearing June 1. River traffic is likely to be seriously interfered with this season because the usual reserve supply of water held in the upper lake regions has been allowed to flow out. This has been made necessary because of the rotting out of the three principal dams. A long dry season would hamper upper river navigation considerably, and it is possible that it would have to be entirely suspended. At a meeting held in St. Paul it was decided to invite President McKinley to spend at least two days in the Twin Cities upon the occasion of his Western tour. Congressman Fletcher was chosen to bear the invitation to Washington and to endeavor to have the executive so time his visit that he would be able to greet the Thirteenth Minnesota upon its return from the Philippines. Following close upon the visit last week of Attorney George B. Edgerton to Bemidji in behalf of the state, to look after trespassers upon state lands, comes a report that the large pine owners have tired of the constant trespasses of a certain class of settlers in that vicinity, and have decided toattach a large lot of logs now on the banks or in the channel of the Schoolcraft river, and to prosecute criminally the trespassers.
